David Healy
David Healy
David Jonathan Healy, MBEis a Northern Irish former footballer and now football manager who is in charge at NIFL Premiership club Linfield...
ProfessionSoccer Player
Date of Birth5 August 1979
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Imports and transplants are again the big winners in 2005, and will close out the year with about 40.5 percent of the market, up from 38.8 percent in 2004.
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With GM, I think overall you'll be looking at a 9 percent increase in October this year versus October last year in GM's light truck sales, and I think that their SUV sales will show an increase at least that big year over year. That's the good news.
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Ford is in the intolerable position of having too many plants and too many people, ... Cost cutting needs to come before the end of the year -- layoffs, plant closings, that sort of ugly stuff.
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GM had an unusually weak November a year ago. It made a big push in December last year, a big push in the summer, and November was kind of a lull.
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It's more trouble for the suppliers. Partly, it's a reflection of the fact that Ford and GM are shrinking to reckon with lower market share. And so there's less business to go around for the suppliers.
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It's strange. I don't even know about friends, what they think about me, ... You don't really know who you can trust.
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It's still a very profitable segment. That's why everyone is getting into it. But you will definitely see more incentives.
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The bearishness is overdone. This is probably the part of the cycle where you'd do well owning auto stocks if you have some patience.
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They've got to get these operations turned around. By 2007, I think that will begin to happen.
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They've got some interesting new stuff coming out. They're going to continue to do better than GM and Ford in North America, but I think there'll be a squeeze on their earnings.
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These pills can be useful pills, but they don't match up to the hype we've had that they really cure the illness.
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It's not bet-the-company, but it's pretty darn important. Well, maybe it is bet-the-company.
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I'm not sure how significant that is because these warped market shares were caused by the strike that is now over.
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Imports and transplants have eaten Detroit's lunch and are beginning to nibble at its dinner as well.